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Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker

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IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker® monitors the software industry with frequent releases of semiannual software revenue estimates. It tracks and details individual software vendors' historical business performance and forecasts the development of the industry five years into the future — across 53 geographies in 80+ discrete software market segments. In addition, the tracker provides an understanding of the transition from traditional on-premise deployments to public cloud services by segmenting total software revenue by deployment types — by vendor, country, and market segment. With the rapid transition from 2nd Platform to 3rd Platform technologies, it is critical for software vendors, public cloud services providers, supply chain partners, and the investment community to understand this transition and how it differs by market segment and geography. The tracker answers the question: Who is winning the cloud battle?

Technology Coverage

This tracker provides total market size and vendor shares for 80+ software markets. Measurement for this tracker is total software revenue, which includes license, maintenance, and subscription revenue (including public cloud services). The following section lists the secondary software markets that group the 80+ functional software markets reported.

Data Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a semiannual basis via a web-based interface for online querying and downloads. The following are the deliverables for this tracker. For a complete delivery schedule, please contact an IDC sales representative.

Half-year vendor shares by competitive market by geography

Annual five-year forecasts by competitive market by geography

Forecast Coverage

Annual five-year market forecasts for this tracker are updated semiannually and include five-year annual market projections. Forecasts are available at the worldwide, regional, and country levels. Details of the forecasts included in this tracker are as follows.